Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Google today released two Gemini text-to-speech models, gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts, offering over 2,000 voices and support for creating custom voices from a 30-second audio sample.
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Simon WillisonAI score5757 Google DeepMindAI score5353 Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Google's Private AI Compute team announced adding private server-side persistent memory to the platform, giving AI assistants long-term memory across devices while maintaining privacy standards at the level of on-device processing.
OpenAI NewsAI score2424 Two years of OpenAI Academy
OpenAI Academy marks its second anniversary. OpenAI says it will continue bringing AI skills to more communities.
OpenAI NewsAI score2222 How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
invideo uses GPT-6 Astra to boost video editing: more precise edit planning, 3x faster color correction and grading, and up to 50 custom effects produced in a day.
OpenAI NewsAI score2929 Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Ringg uses GPT-5.6 to build multilingual AI agents supporting voice, chat, WhatsApp and web channels, resolving up to 65% of customer calls. Compared with GPT-4.1, costs are 90% lower.
OpenAI NewsAI score2525 Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
Legal tech company Harvey is using GPT-6 Astra to produce more structured, contextually attuned legal documents. The model frees lawyers from document drafting so they can focus on legal strategy.
OpenAI NewsAI score2222 ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, allowing eligible advertisers to reach users across more than 60 countries and regions.
OpenAI NewsAI score5555 Better prompt caching for GPT-6
OpenAI described improvements to GPT-6 prompt caching, including higher cache hit rates, new diagnostic tools, explicit breakpoints, and related control options, all aimed at reducing latency and cost.
Simon WillisonAI score1616 llm 0.36
Simon Willison released version 0.36 of the open-source CLI tool llm on September 22. The original post contains only the release announcement and does not describe specific updates.
Simon WillisonAI score2121 llm-anthropic 0.29
Simon Willison released llm-anthropic 0.29 on September 22, 2026. The original post provides no further version details or feature notes.
Simon WillisonAI score3535 llm-typesafe 0.1a0
Simon Willison released llm-typesafe 0.1a0, an LLM plugin supporting TypeSafe AI's newly launched Jev model. It can be installed with `llm install llm-typesafe` and used by setting a typesafe API key.
NVIDIA BlogAI score5757 NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development
At ROSCon in Toronto, Canada, NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, a suite of GPU-accelerated open source packages built on ROS, adding agentic workflows to help developers and AI agents collaborate on building robotics applications.
OpenAI NewsAI score2828 Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
OpenAI's GPT‑6 Astra helps Parallel's agents research and synthesize labor market data, cutting both time and cost in half compared with previous models.
Hugging Face BlogSelectedAI score7070 Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
Hugging Face has announced that transformers can load GGUF models — passing a gguf_file to from_pretrained lets you run quantized checkpoints from the Hub on your local machine.
Why it matters: Hugging Face provides official usage of GGUF in transformers plus benchmarks against llama.cpp, helping readers pick a viable local inference path.
Simon WillisonAI score6969 Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI released Jev, a new category of model it calls a System One model, which takes text input but outputs classifications, yes/no decisions, scores, and confidence as floating-point numbers. Jev charges only for input at $0.042 per million tokens, below GPT-5 Nano's $0.05/million, supports evaluating multiple questions in parallel, and suits tasks like classification, ranking, and search reranking.
Simon WillisonAI score5959 Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
Cloudflare announced that Python Workers are now generally available, making Python a first-class supported language on the Cloudflare Developer Platform after two years in preview.
NVIDIA BlogAI score3030 Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
NVIDIA explains that deploying Physical AI (autonomous vehicles, humanoids, and industrial robots) at scale requires a safety framework spanning hardware, software, AI behavior, and operating environments. ABI Research projects 49 million L3-L5 autonomous vehicles by 2035, and Omdia estimates about 60 million industrial robots will be deployed from 2026 to 2035.
OpenAI NewsAI score2323 Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
Higgsfield AI used GPT-6 Astra to launch new video features within a day. The combination makes it easier for small businesses to produce video ads and bring new creative tools to market faster.
OpenAI NewsAI score3232 Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
OpenAI expanded OpenAI Academy with new learning paths for employees, developers, managers, educators and students. Learners can use these paths to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.
Hugging Face BlogSelectedAI score6464 tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured
Hugging Face has released a candidate version of tokenizers v1; on an Apple M4 Max, single-threaded encoding is 3 to 30 times faster than v0.23, eight-thread scaling reaches 76% of linear, and the output token IDs are fully identical.
Why it matters: The official write-up details the performance optimizations in tokenizers v1 along with reproducible benchmarks, letting readers assess the real benefits of upgrading for training and inference data feeding.
OpenAI NewsAI score2525 Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
OpenAI released the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, an AI safety roadmap for protecting and empowering young people built around six pillars. The blueprint aims to create a safer AI experience for teens.
Latent SpaceAI score3636 [AINews] not much happened today
Anthropic launched Projects in Claude Code, letting a single conversation spin up parallel cloud threads that keep running after the user leaves; Google updated its Gemini managed agents with a new Credentials API and Files API, claiming 30% lower costs and 22% more cache hits.
Google ResearchAI score4747 The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI
Google Research launched a new research experiment where teachers can use generative UI (GenUI) to dynamically generate customized, guided interactive learning simulations based on their teaching goals and curriculum. Built on active learning principles from the LearnLM education model family, the release includes over 30 AI-generated, teacher-reviewed English STEM learning interactives covering physics, chemistry, biology and math for middle and high school.
NVIDIA BlogAI score2222 Cute Critters Come to the Cloud: ‘Aniimo’ Launches on GeForce NOW
Pawprint Studio's free-to-play open-world creature-catching RPG Aniimo launched on GeForce NOW at release, letting players stream it across devices without waiting for a 45GB download.
OpenAI NewsAI score2828 How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Law firm Cooley built GO Public on ChatGPT Work, bringing AI capabilities into the IPO process. The tool helps lawyers surface issues earlier and focus expert judgment where it matters most.
GitHub Blog · AI & MLSelectedAI score7777 Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
GitHub author Stephen Toub describes how the team, using the GitHub Copilot app and CLI, fully rewrote the Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript/Node.js into 832,378 lines of production Rust, with AI agents writing most of the code across 128 pull requests — a project that would normally take one or two person-years was completed by a single developer in a few months.
Why it matters: The author lived through the entire migration and shares first-hand data on code volume, release cadence, and cache hit rates, offering a viable path for agent-driven large-scale rewrites.
OpenAI NewsAI score3232 Introducing Astra for Law
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, built for the legal industry. It offers frontier intelligence, customized law firm workflows, connectable legal data sources, and high-grade security controls for confidential client work.
OpenAI NewsAI score5757 Reimagining advertising with AI
OpenAI is launching AI-powered advertising experiences, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
OpenAI NewsAI score2424 Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
Hex's data agent, powered by GPT-6 Astra, turns analysis results into interactive visual reports that employees love to share, presenting complex analysis in visual form.
Mistral AIAI score4747 Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser
Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla: the Firefox Smart Window (beta) AI browsing assistant is now powered by Mistral models, serving users in France and North America, with the UK and Germany expected to follow later this year. The feature helps users understand complex searches, recover important content clicked away, and organize information based on browser tabs. Conversations are not stored on Mozilla servers by default, and Mistral pledges zero data retention.
OpenAI NewsAI score3030 How to connect AI usage to business value
ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics features help teams understand AI usage and spending, identify training needs, and link AI adoption to business outcomes. With these analytics tools, companies can more clearly measure the actual business value of their AI investments.
NVIDIA BlogAI score4848 University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
The University of Manchester, working with the NVIDIA Earth-2 team, repurposed the Earth-2 CorrDiff generative downscaling model for air pollution forecasting and added Earth-2 StormCast, which can directly leverage air quality observations.
OpenAI NewsAI score2424 How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust
Fyxer built its AI executive assistant on OpenAI models, combining fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback. It organizes inboxes and drafts emails in each user's own voice, which has earned user trust.
AMD Chips and ComputeAI score3434 F-Secure and AMD Silo AI Help Secure Agentic AI Journeys
F-Secure and AMD Silo AI demonstrated how F-Secure Trust technology and AMD Silo AI's model routing solution work together to keep users' digital journeys secure in the agentic AI era.
OpenAI NewsAI score2525 Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra
Cognition's Devin now uses GPT-6 Astra to improve software testing and verify usability. The combination aims to help engineers review less code and ship more.
OpenAI NewsAI score5454 Now everyone can put data to work
OpenAI has launched the Data agent in ChatGPT Work, allowing users to connect company data using natural language, mine insights and build interactive dashboards. The feature helps users put their data to practical use in an AI-driven way.
OpenAI NewsAI score4343 Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, which comes with built-in financial data and integrates GPT-6 Astra, targeting research, modeling and client material creation. The product is aimed at the financial services industry, combining financial data capabilities with GPT-6 Astra in a single offering.
OpenAI NewsSelectedAI score6565 Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API
OpenAI introduced GPT-Live-1 in the API, bringing natural full-duplex voice conversation. The model also offers stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.
Why it matters: The official announcement lists full-duplex voice, custom voices, and telephony support, helping readers evaluate integration options for voice applications.
Hugging Face BlogAI score5959 Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
Hugging Face released Workflow1111, rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111's main features as a single Gradio Workflow canvas with 11 media pipelines and 73 nodes, covering text-to-image, hi-res fix, img2img, prompt matrix, VLM interrogation, detection-generated inpaint masks, ControlNet-style preprocessors, background removal, PNG Info, and image-to-video.
OpenAI NewsSelectedAI score6767 Introducing the Agents API
OpenAI launched the Agents API, a managed service for building and deploying agents in the cloud. Powered by the Codex harness, the API provides orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use.
Why it matters: The article notes the API is powered by the Codex harness and supports long-running sessions and tool calls, shedding light on OpenAI's managed agent product.